‘Agatha All Along’ Showrunner Confirms Agatha Is Dolly Parton’s Jolene
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from the sixth episode of Marvel Studios’ Agatha All Along. The latest episode of Agatha All Along was filled with plenty of earth-shattering revelations, but it was a throwaway joke that had audiences doing a double take.
Following episode six of the Disney+ series, showrunner Jac Schaeffer addressed the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot that suggests Kathryn Hahn‘s Agatha was also the Jolene who inspired Dolly Parton‘s hit 1973 single.
When asked if Agatha was truly the woman who tried to steal the country legend’s man, Schaeffer told The Wrap with a laugh, “In the MCU, hell yeah.” In the flashback scene, Joe Locke‘s Teen (aka William Kaplan, aka Billy Maximoff) researches Agatha’s centuries-old origins online, finding that she survived the Salem Witch Trials and was present at the Titanic sinking in 1912 and the 1937 Hindenberg disaster.
Another news clipping shows a black-and-white screenshot of a blonde woman slapping Agatha. ‘Does This 1972 Surveillance Photo of Dolly Parton Show the Real Jolene?’ reads the headline.
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